Idk if there are any LOTM fans who happen to also use hexbear.

"Like they're both high school shows from the 2000s~2010s about a tall guy falling in love with a short girl, they're both ~25 episodes long, and despite their popularity I thought both of them were just OK. The one was called Toradora and the other one was called..."

[wakes up]

"...Oh, darn, yeah, what was the other one called?"

"..."

"...Don't tell me."

[searches Anilist for "romance, heterosexual, primarily teen cast, 2000-2019, 24-26 episodes"]

"...Yeah, they're- I guess they're both Toradora, huh. Neat."

I can only assume I was mentally sort of blending Pani Poni Dash (26 episodes, high school, 2000s, "popular but just OK IMO"), and maybe Josee, The Tiger and The Fish (romance, girl looks short due to her wheelchair, but nothing else matches the description). I do sort of recall saying something about "disability" in the dream, so Josee seems like a likely inspiration. Aharen-san wa Hakarenai and Love, Chunibyo and Other Delusions also have some traits in common.

So... I guess if you stuck those four anime in a blender you'd end up with Not Toradora.

linky

UPDATE: 1ST — subtitling

Majority of subtitling staff work for CR used Aegisub an OSS, but recently been several changes. Everyone now forced to abandon it, switch to cloud-based software. Called “OOONA”, it's a complete Israeli software. Many staff very upset about decision (+)

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We're kicking off our extended pause of Albert Barillé's Once Upon a Time with some fanime. I had originally planned on showing all the episodes of this show AND all the episodes of the much more infamous Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls tonight, but then I found out there was actually a lot of secondary content for both shows that wasn't included in the episode playlists. And so I figured it was best to save NNSG for next week.

For now, you may be asking what "fanime" even is. And so I will explain: A fanime (etym. blend of fan + anime) is basically when someone makes an anime-style cartoon show by drawing frames in MS Paint; compositing them in Windows Movie Maker with pirated music, stock sound effects, and dialog recorded in one take on potato microphones; and posting the result to YouTube. This isn't necessarily accurate of all fanime, but the throughline is in any case that fanime is a form of democratized amateur animation combining anime aesthetics with "Internet Ugly". The style is most associated with the Western anime fandom of the mid-2000s through mid-2010s, where it was often difficult to distinguish sincere fanime shows from parodies of the genre.

What's the chef cookin' tonight?

Tokyo Crystal Mew is a magical girl fanime series created by mojocrystaltokyo, released between 2006 and 2012, according to the descriptions of the reuploads (the original YouTube uploads were taken down for copyright, alas!). According to Fanime Realm, Tokyo Crystal Mew is believed by many to be the first ever fanime series, which certainly seems likely when it started so shortly after YouTube's founding in 2005.

Tokyo Crystal Mew is an unofficial "next generation" sequel to the popular early-2000s magical girl animanga series Tokyo Mew Mew, so we can expect Tokyo Crystal Mew to be a lot less parodic than the two fanime we watched back in August. Fanime Realm describes Tokyo Crystal Mew's plot like so:

The plot is centered around Toya Aoyama, the daughter of Masaya and Ichigo, and her best friend Mina Shirogane, the daughter of Ryou and Minto. Shortly after being attacked by a monster, they learn from Ryou's cousin, Yuko Shirogane, that they have the right DNA to be Mew Mews and recruits them into participating in "Mew Project 2.0", which has been created to fight off an alien force known as the Seekon Anima, as Mew Cherry and Mew Blueberry, respectively. Eventually, they meet 8 other Mew Mews, some of whom are also daughters of the original team members.

Fanime Realm further claims, interestingly, that mojocrystaltokyo was planning in the mid-2010s on making a reimagining of Tokyo Crystal Mew without the copyrighted elements, but that this idea evidently never came to fruition. This certainly leaves me wondering to what extent Tokyo Crystal Mew can be enjoyed without having seen Tokyo Mew Mew — I myself have only seen 17/52 episodes of the anime this fanime was based on.

We will be watching all available Tokyo Crystal Mew content tonight:

• Episode 1 (10 minutes)
• Episode 2 (9 minutes)
• Episode 3.1 (7 minutes)
• Episode 3.2 (5 minutes)
• Episode 4.1 (7 minutes)
• Episode 4.2 (9 minutes)
• Remake Episode 1.1 (8 minutes)
• Remake Episode 1.2 (7 minutes)
• Remake Episode 2 (22 minutes)
• BONUS: Toya the Mew Mew 1 (2 minutes)
• BONUS: Toya the Mew Mew 2 (2 minutes)
• BONUS: Toya the Mew Mew 3 (3 minutes)
• BONUS: Toya the Mew Mew 4 (3 minutes)
• BONUS: Overdrive IOSYS TCM ver (1 minute)
• BONUS: Triple Baka TCM ver (0 minutes)

≈ 95 minutes of scheduled content.

Notice how some of the episodes are split in two due to 2000s YouTube disallowing videos longer than 10 minutes.

Content warnings and accessibility

Audio description: Not available.

Sign language: Not available.

Captions: Not available.

Language of audio: English.

Content warnings:

• Sound quality may be grating to some viewers.

♫ Uniting nations at the speeeed of liiiiight ♫
[epic sax solo]
♫ Station of the '20s — TV☆3SIS! ♫

The variety of styles and genres are a huge plus too

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lduGituNvYpbFUbeduGbodhOJ5tdcu6Y0

I type the letters fuwafuwataimu.

Mozc suggests ｢ふわふわタイム｣.

Google suggests ｢ふわふわ時間｣.

https://anilist.co/anime/5680/KON/

This is comedy heaven like Gintama level of peak.

Llyod is one of the best isekai protagonists out there. The scamming is insane.

This is a must read if you like isekai or comedy. It has legit made me LOL so many times.

IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Blorptube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, first up is Yuyu Hakusho (1992), one of the all-time classics of shonen anime, featuring a teenage boy who is killed by a car to save a child and then given superpowers in recognition of his selflessness. He goes back to Earth and fights bad guys. Expect a lot of glowing and powering up to defeat smug villains and the like. Episodes 19 through 24 tonight.

After that is A Whisker Away (2020), an anime feature about a teenage girl who discovers a magic mask that allows her to transform into a cat. She uses It to pursue her crush, who has yet to notice her, and to whom she is too shy to talk. Uh-oh, overusing the mask risks trapping her in cat form permanently. How will she resolve this conundrum? Guess we’ll find out. Directors Tomotaka Shibayama and Junichi Sato have both worked on a bunch of anime series, most notably Your Lie in April (2014) for the former and Princess Tutu (2002) for the latter, though neither have done much else in feature films. This movie is popular on Letterboxd, so let’s check it out.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Blorptube, right here:

https://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Yuyu Hakusho: https://myanimelist.net/anime/392/Yuu%E2%98%86Yuu%E2%98%86Hakusho
• A Whisker Away: https://letterboxd.com/film/a-whisker-away/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Yuyu Hakusho: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/22813
• A Whisker Away: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/232775

CWs for Yuyu Hakusho:

• Child abuse.
• Stalking.
• Alcoholism.
• Drug addiction.
• Deaths of animals.
• Animal corpses.
• Death of dragon.
• Spiders.
• Bugs.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Sexual assault: the protagonist gets handsy with a trans woman.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Squashed head.
• Cannibalism.
• Someone is burned alive.
• Someone is buried alive.
• Amputation.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Broken bones.
• Finger mutilation.
• Torture.
• Eye mutilation.
• Death by falling.
• Blood and gore.
• Death of child.
• Sexualization of minor.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Ableist slurs.
• Death of parent.
• Kidnapping.
• Clowns.
• Possession.
• Ghosts.
• Audio gore.
• Vomiting.
• Spitting.
• Needles.
• Hospital scene.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• Self-harm.
• PTSD.
• Eating disorder.
• Suicide.
• Claustrophobia.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Suicidal ideation.
• Crying baby.
• Flashing lights.
• Broken fourth wall.
• Babies.
• “Man in dress” jokes.
• Ableism.
• Misrepresentation of minority.
• Blackface-style caricatures.
• Misgendering.
• Implied sex.
• Honking horns.
• Screeching tires.
• Car crash.
• Someone is hit by a car.
• Gun violence.
• Nuclear explosion.

CWs for A Whisker Away:

• Child abandonment.
• Stalking.
• Kidnapping.
• Body dysmorphia.
• Depression.
• Bugs.

Links to movies:

• Yuyu Hakusho ep. 19: https://tankie.tube/w/oUbmWt1qTSnb7DwhbzwK4X
• Yuyu Hakusho ep. 20: https://tankie.tube/w/vjrzY98mjfD8aCCAKLjVus
• Yuyu Hakusho ep. 21: https://tankie.tube/w/7usa1mNKbQTwFw7rEdqozF
• Yuyu Hakusho ep. 22: https://tankie.tube/w/5ovvygiDWhvd4MqbjF8f34
• Yuyu Hakusho ep. 23: https://tankie.tube/w/fdqWZtLHRxtz37ZPzkaega
• Yuyu Hakusho ep. 24: https://tankie.tube/w/2AiNskhKjRFciCvvanmv9h
• A Whisker Away: https://tankie.tube/w/fFC65AiKcREp4D2tWU4trM

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【INTRODUCTION】 1890年のアメリカ。総距離約4,000マイル、賞金総額５,000万ドル、人類史上初の乗馬による北米大陸横断レース「スティール・ボール・ラン」が開催されようとしていた。 かつて天才騎手と呼ばれながらも、 半身不随となり、失意の中にいたジョニィ・ジョースター。 彼はこのレースで優勝を目論む謎のアウトロー、ジャイロ・ツェペリが引き起こした不思議な現象に希望を見出し、「スティール・ボール・ラン」への参加を決意する。 二人はそれぞれの思惑を胸に協力関係を結び、過酷な冒険＜レース＞へと踏み出す――。

It’s 1890, in America, the Steel Ball Run — the first horse racing championship across the North American continent — was about to begin. Spanning around 4,000 miles, the race offered 50 million dollars as the winning prize. Johnny Joestar, once being hailed as a genius jockey, is now paralysed and lost in despair. He finds hope in the mysterious phenomena caused by Gyro Zeppeli, an outlaw aiming to win the race, and determines to participate in the Steel Ball Run Race. Each having their own goal in mind, the two form an alliance and set foot upon the gruelling adventure and race.

ジョニィ・ジョースター　cv.坂田将吾 Johnny Joestar　cv.Shogo Sakata

ジャイロ・ツェペリ　cv.阿座上洋平 Gyro Zeppeli　cv.Yohei Azakami

ディエゴ・ブランドー　cv.石川界人 Diego Brando　cv.Kaito Ishikawa

ルーシー・スティール　cv.高橋李依 Lucy Steel　cv.Rie Takahashi

スティーブン・スティール　cv.三宅健太 Steven Steel　cv.Kenta Miyake

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